So today on June 6, I scanned headlines.

[TNNurse]

I looked at the local papers (one small story in Knoxville) and then Atlanta Journal Constitution, NYTimes, Washington Post, CNN and USAToday. I watched Willie Geist on NBC, and am watching Sunday Morning on CBS. THERE WAS NO MENTION OF THE ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY.

Is 77 years not an exciting anniversary??? I know there is a hell of a lot going on in the world right now, but not knowing and appreciating history is essential to our future.

Imagine if that plan had not worked.

There are some posts here and the historian Heather Cox Richardson and Michael Beschloss have posted, but much of the media seems to be ignoring this critical day in history.

[questionseverything]

1. C span is covering the under cover women who helped fight the nazi

Fascinating

Hint, c span is generally the best and most informative morning tv

[dawg]

2. If D Day had not worked ...

The Russians would likely have swept over all of Germany and Europe would be a very different place today.

[Javaman]

3. My cousin was in the first wave on Omaha.

He was 19. He survived but most of his company didn’t. He spent 3 days under constant fire day and night before he and the cobbled together company he was now with, we’re able to break out.

He made it through through the end and went on to be a plumber.

He was a hard scramble Italian-American from Brooklyn, NYC.

My cousin: Vincent DeFero.

[Duppers]

4. My dad was there too.

In a later wave. He obviously survived and without injury. He commandeered a German jeep, removed the 2 dead Germans in the jeep, & drove across France with members of his company. There are multiple reasons he shouldn't have survived but he did.
(Sadly, my mother never seemed to have understood what he did and I only learned from eavesdroping on large family reunion conservations.)